Bergdahl was charged in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The Army conducted a hearing on his case earlier this month. His attorney, Eugene Fidell, said in a statement that Trump “has become a broken record on this subject.”

As for the claims of “mitigating factors,” Lt. Col. Allen West calls it “bovine excrement.”

“Let’s be very honest, there’s only one mitigating factor: Bowe Bergdahl wouldn’t have been in the hands of the Haqqani Network if he’d kept his arse on his combat outpost,” wrote West.

“Have we lost all sense of individual responsibility in our society and the military?” he asked.

Yes, I think for the most part our government has lost that completely. It’s never the person who does the wrong’s fault, is it? Just think, “It’s Bush’s fault.” And no, that is not some endorsement of Mr. Bush, it’s just an example.

Here’s how things used to go down with deserters. This is a scene from the film God’s and Generals, in which Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson explains that the crime of desertion is not a single solitary sign of cowardice, but is a crime against others. The events depicted in this brief clip are a historical reality. Watch and be sobered by what you hear and see.

“Desertion is not a solitary crime,” said Jackson. “It is a crime against the tens of thousands of veterans who are huddled together in the harsh cold of this winter. Against all those who have sacrificed. Against all those who have fallen. Against all the women and the children we have left alone to fend for themselves. I regard the crime of desertion as a sin against the army. Duty is ours, the consequences are God’s.”

By leaving his post, for whatever reason, Bowe Bergdahl did exactly what Stonewall Jackson said a deserter does. He committed a crime against his fellow soldiers and all those who had previously sacrificed and fallen.

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